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<span class="top">The Book of 1st Timothy</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<td class="v">4:1</td>
<td>Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;</td>
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<td class="v">4:2</td>
<td>Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;</td>
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<td class="v">4:3</td>
<td>Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.</td>
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<td class="v">4:4</td>
<td>For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:</td>
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<td class="v">4:5</td>
<td>For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.</td>
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<td class="v">4:6</td>
<td>If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.</td>
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<td class="v">4:7</td>
<td>But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.</td>
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<td class="v">4:8</td>
<td>For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.</td>
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<td class="v">4:9</td>
<td>This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.</td>
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<td class="v">4:10</td>
<td>For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.</td>
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<td class="v">4:11</td>
<td>These things command and teach.</td>
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<td class="v">4:12</td>
<td>Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.</td>
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<td class="v">4:13</td>
<td>Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.</td>
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<td class="v">4:14</td>
<td>Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.</td>
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<td class="v">4:15</td>
<td>Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.</td>
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<td class="v">4:16</td>
<td>Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.</td>
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